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2024 Big Stone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Big Stone County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 2,020 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2689th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Big Stone County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 15, 2024 06:00 | December 15, 2024 09:45 | 3h 45m | 385 | 795 |
| 2 | May 6, 2024 23:30 | May 7, 2024 02:45 | 3h 15m | 174 | 566 |
| 3 | September 19, 2024 18:45 | September 19, 2024 22:00 | 3h 15m | 161 | 523 |
| 4 | January 19, 2024 16:15 | January 19, 2024 16:30 | 15m | 15 | 4 |
| 5 | March 12, 2024 13:45 | March 12, 2024 19:30 | 5h 45m | 15 | 39 |
| 6 | May 16, 2024 14:45 | May 16, 2024 15:15 | 30m | 6 | 3 |
| 7 | October 16, 2024 15:30 | October 16, 2024 19:15 | 3h 45m | 6 | 23 |
| 8 | October 16, 2024 20:00 | October 16, 2024 20:15 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 9 | November 28, 2024 22:00 | November 28, 2024 22:15 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 10 | July 31, 2024 15:00 | July 31, 2024 16:30 | 1h 30m | 5 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Big Stone County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 1.37 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2024 | 68 min | 1.00 | 68 min | 0.99 |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ortonville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,766 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Big Stone County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Big Stone County, MN annual power outage report, 2024, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2024/minnesota/big-stone-county